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The U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy (hereafter referred to as
SBA Office of Advocacy) contracted with Management Research and Planning Corp.
(MRP) to study what state and local governments were doing to mitigate burdensome
regulations on small business entities. The analysis of this study looked at how state
efforts compared to federal protection under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), the
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement and Fairness Act (SBREFA) and Executive
Order 12866. It also studied what unique methods states were using to protect small
businesses from burdensome regulations. As little was known prior to this effort as to
what states were doing to protect small businesses from burdensome regulatory actions,
this study was contracted with the goal of identifying best practices in reducing small
business regulatory burdens and sharing those best practices with all state and local
governments.
The research discovered that few states are a...